Finally taking a break today. Been busy, very busy. Matters of minor importance pile up like snowdrifts, swirl around me, and give the air that stillness of a winter evening.

It's been a lovely monsoon season, with more rain in the past week than we had during all of 2020. The house is covered in muddy puppy paw prints. I sleep well when it rains, and I've enjoyed it.

Humid though. In Arizona, we mock those who cannot handle the heat and then we fall apart when the humidity is greater than 2 percent. Our doors stick and our hair doesn't dry and we stomp and thrash and wail and cry.

I need a curtain rod, I think. Yes. That's exactly what I need.